What I've been doing and saying

November 2023

As I approach semi-retirement in 2024, I’m clearing the decks a bit. I sent two book manuscripts to the publishers in November.

The first, After Neoliberalism, is a collection of articles going back to the 1980s, covering the rise and decline of neoliberalism (aka economic rationalism, market liberalism etc), with some hopes for the future.

The second, Public Policy and Climate Change is an annotated set of lecture slides from the Politics, Philosophy and Economics course I’ve been teaching for the last few years. Hopefully out in time for my successor to make use of it next year.

Apart from that, I’ve kept busy with presentations, opinion pieces and electronic media, as well as social media like Substack, Mastodon and Bluesky. I keep my Twitter account open to prevent hijacking, and check it from time to time, but no longer post or comment there.

Presentations

UQ Symposium, What does a net zero world look like?, 21 November

COP 28 Stocktake briefing for media 24 November

Articles

Westpac’s profit jump is no surprise when the RBA favours banks over households, The Guardian, 6 November

Trade Unions and Basic Income. In The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income, (Ed, Torry, M.) (with Troy Henderson)

How is the labour market changing: how does it need to change? In The Social Future of Australia: The 50th Anniversary Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Austral, (Eds, McConkey, K. & Hatherly, C.) pp. 88-92.

What is the actual economic benefit of the Grand Prix?, Crikey 30 November (spoiler, there isn’t any),

Two charts in Australia’s 2023 climate statement show we are way off track for net zero by 2050, The Conversation, 4 December

Media

My media report for November (password quiggin)

My Substack blog